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I like the new changes in the Nonexistent Physiology page, but I'm a bit confused over the Paradoxical Nonexistence type as its text goes in favor and against an example I know of. I'm 90% sure the example is correct, but then it somewhat depends on which parts do I take priority in the wording.
Timmy Turner wished to have never been born, then got a poof around saying "non-exist!" and reality became a timeline where he was never born and his parents had a daughter instead of him, everyone he met had a different life.
Is this Nonexistent Physiology type 3, aspect type 5 due to lacking a past? Note that he doesn't always lack a past, only from the point he made the wish forward, after that he has a past that starts when he made the wish and just existed like that.
Paradoxical Nonexistence says
"Characters still exist, but paradoxically behave as if they don't when attacked." Which I guess is in favor in this being that as Causality Manip can't target the past he dosn't have as it doesn't exist. But needless to say this is not at all portrayed as a combat thing in-universe.
"To qualify for this type, a character needs to be stated to be immune to manipulations of the aspects they are nonexistent in due to their nonexistence." Which is not at all Timmy's case. He's not stated to be immune to anything, it would simply stand to reason that he would due to an aspect of his existence being nonexistent.
"In terms of binary, where existence is 1 and nonexistence is 0, this would be part 0 and part 1 simultaneously" This would be in in favor as his history is a 0 minus eversince he made the wish, from that point on it being a 1.
In the Other Aspect of Nonexistence everything it says goes in line with Timmy's case.
"These characters lack some other fundamental aspect that would be necessary for a normal being's existence or have a nonexistent one." which fits Timmy's case.
"Examples would include things like lacking a history." Which he does, in a limited way.
"They are hence immune to abilities that target that respective aspect." Which is the case.
Timmy Turner wished to have never been born, then got a poof around saying "non-exist!" and reality became a timeline where he was never born and his parents had a daughter instead of him, everyone he met had a different life.
Is this Nonexistent Physiology type 3, aspect type 5 due to lacking a past? Note that he doesn't always lack a past, only from the point he made the wish forward, after that he has a past that starts when he made the wish and just existed like that.
Paradoxical Nonexistence says
"Characters still exist, but paradoxically behave as if they don't when attacked." Which I guess is in favor in this being that as Causality Manip can't target the past he dosn't have as it doesn't exist. But needless to say this is not at all portrayed as a combat thing in-universe.
"To qualify for this type, a character needs to be stated to be immune to manipulations of the aspects they are nonexistent in due to their nonexistence." Which is not at all Timmy's case. He's not stated to be immune to anything, it would simply stand to reason that he would due to an aspect of his existence being nonexistent.
"In terms of binary, where existence is 1 and nonexistence is 0, this would be part 0 and part 1 simultaneously" This would be in in favor as his history is a 0 minus eversince he made the wish, from that point on it being a 1.
In the Other Aspect of Nonexistence everything it says goes in line with Timmy's case.
"These characters lack some other fundamental aspect that would be necessary for a normal being's existence or have a nonexistent one." which fits Timmy's case.
"Examples would include things like lacking a history." Which he does, in a limited way.
"They are hence immune to abilities that target that respective aspect." Which is the case.
